The draft report will be helpful for those who work in or are responsible for digital repositories and who want to be certified against its requirements, as well as for those who execute the audit and certification process.

The guidelines are also designed for a much broader audience:

For organizations planning repositories and for producers of digital materials.

For staff working within repositories: The checklist is useful in helping them to determine the criteria they need to plan for and to meet for safely storing and migrating digital materials.

For producers of digital materials: It also serves producers of digital materials by helping them know what to expect from the repositories they work with and how to streamline interactions with the repositories.

For those considering outsourcing their digital materials storage: The checklist will help organizations considering an external agency to serve their digital preservation needs to ensure that contracted organizations are executing the task adequately.

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